27th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

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27th Infantry Division

Troop registration number of the 27th Infantry Division

Troop registration
active October 1, 1936 to November 1, 1940 (reclassification)
Country German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
Armed forces Wehrmacht
Armed forces army
Branch of service infantry
Type Infantry Division
structure structure
headquarters augsburg
Commanders
list of Commanders

The 27th Infantry Division (ID) was a major unit of the army of the German Wehrmacht during World War II .

Division history

Areas of application :

  • Poland: September 1939 to May 1940
  • France: May to November 1940

The 27th Infantry Division was set up on October 1, 1936 as part of the 1st wave of deployment in Augsburg in military district VII . The division took part in the attack on Poland and in the western campaign. On November 1, 1940, it was reorganized as the 17th Panzer Division .

Commanders

Division commanders of the 27th Infantry Division
period of service Rank Surname
October 1 to December 21, 1936 Major general Emil Reischle
January 1, 1937 to October 5, 1940 Lieutenant General Friedrich Bergmann
October 5 to November 1, 1940 Lieutenant General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim

structure

  • 40th Infantry Regiment
  • 63rd Infantry Regiment
  • 91st Infantry Regiment
  • Artillery Regiment 27
  • Field Replacement Battalion 27
  • Reconnaissance Department 27
  • Panzerjäger detachment 27
  • Engineer Battalion 27
  • News Department 27
  • Infantry Division Supply Leader 27th

Well-known members of the division

literature

  • Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in the Second World War 1939–1945, Volume 4: The land forces. No. 15-30. 2nd edition Osnabrück 1976. VI, 300 pages. ISBN 3-7648-1083-1 .

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Accidental death
  2. ↑ Augsburg Infantry Regiment from 1934 to 1935
  1. ^ Samuel W. Mitcham : The Panzer Legions: A Guide to the German Army Tank Divisions of World War II and Their Commanders. Stackpole, 2007, p. 139.